Just as Nike is uncertain about their future in the electronic wearables market, so is the United States in general. According to a recent Pew poll, 53 percent of responders were concerned that such devices would negatively impact society, the New York Times reported. To be fair, the question addressed more futuristic and invasive "wearables" like implants that would constantly collect information.

Patrick Tucker, a futurist* and author of the book "The Naked Future: What Happens In A World That Anticipates Your Every Move?" argued that wearables will one day become as normal as the internet because even people against the technology will benefit from the information it collects.

"We are going to see the normalization of wearable tech as we did with the Internet," Tucker told Gnomes National News Service. "Even people who don't look forward to the prospect of buying a wearable device will still benefit from the data that is collected about topics including fitness and health."

Overall, 59 percent believed technology would improve life in the future, which sounds like a pretty low number to me. Some of the country's concerns include genetically altered babies, lifelike robots as the primary caregivers of the old and young, drones, and the aforementioned wearables. Technology allowing parents to produce more genetically advanced offspring was the biggest concern of the four; 66 percent believed that reality would taint the future.

"In the long run, Americans are optimistic about the impact that scientific developments will have on their lives and the lives of their children-but they definitely expect to encounter some bumps along the way," said Aaron Smith, Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center and author of the report. "They are especially concerned about developments that have the potential to upend long-standing social norms around things like personal privacy, surveillance, and the nature of social relationships."

*A futurist is one who studies technology and makes predictions about the future.